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[PAST EVENT] Higher Education Salon: Dr. Kevin R. McClure
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Join us for our Higher Ed Salon featuring Kevin R. McClure, Ph.D., Murphy Distinguished Scholar of Education, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of North Carolina Wilmington
The Caring University: A Roadmap to Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace
Many colleges and universities continue to experience high turnover, prolonged vacancies, and questions about how to engage employees. Drawing on his in-progress book, Dr. Kevin McClure explores the roots of higher education’s workplace problems, connecting his personal experiences to research on burnout, disengagement, and demoralization. The presentation includes multiple approaches leaders of institutions can pursue to better support the wellbeing of staff and faculty through organization-level changes to structures and cultures.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Kevin R. McClure is the Murphy Distinguished Scholar of Education and Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He also serves as Director of Public Engagement for the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges. He is an expert on college leadership, management, and finance, especially at broad-access institutions. He is the co-editor of Regional Public Universities: Addressing Misconceptions and Analyzing Contributions and Unlocking Opportunity through Broadly Accessible Institutions. Dr. McClure’s public scholarship covers a range of topics, and throughout the pandemic he has written viral articles on morale, burnout, disengagement, staffing, and leadership in higher education. He is currently working on a 3-year research project to improve the higher education workplace, including a book titled The Caring University.
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